John McCain Quotes
I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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A house is kind of scary.
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When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
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I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
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I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.
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Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
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I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?
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I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things.
